Marvin Gaye

Heaven knows why Marvin Gaye wrote such a brilliant score for such a bad movie; just be thankful that he did. Gaye always had a deeply soulful dramatic sense, but he also explores his jazz side here, with help from famed bop arranger/musician J.J. Johnson. This ride is sleek, sophisticated and cool as all get-out.

Even when a movie soundtrack isn't so awful you'd just as soon throw it down the stairs, it
very rarely achieves anything beyond a sort of banal, predictable mood music: a little
suspense, a little drama, an ooze of romance, maybe a brisk driving-in-the-car-to-possible
danger track counterpointed with a lighter, romantic-leads-take-a-walk sequence -- all
compressed, like a week's worth of garbage, for one tight, bright under-the-cre... More >

Buy the single unless you like soundtrack albums. This ain't no super-fly sh*t. (Grade - C)